Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:39 AM 9/24/97 PST, you wrote: > If Leitz thought that filters were not necessary, why did they sell > them with Leitz name? > Before 1965, Leitz did not put UV inhibitor in the lens cement. UV filters were sometimes necessary. There are still a lot of those older lenses around. Today, however, like NeverReady cases, it's an additional profit item for the camera stores. All modern Leica lenses have UV filtering built-in and do not require yet another UV filter. If you want to use one to protect your lens from something (?) that's OK as most of the time it won't degrade your image very much. Jim